The Dillon tribune., 1887-03-25
MONTANA MATTERS.
a Column of Interesting News Items,
Culled from the Territorial Press.

j.. Bride has been appointed postmas
! ter at Livingston.
Isaac Horn, OF Anaconda ha. been >en'
to the insane asylum,
The Montana club, OF Helena, will erect
a 100000 club house !hi, year.
\ few cases Of CHAMBERS have been dis.
| covered among the horses OF Helena.
The territorial officers have established
Offices in the new Helena court house.
Deer Lodge amateurs will present the
can;ata OF Esther the first week in May.
The First National bank Of Helena com.
p|eted its c!st year of business on the 18th
inst.
Under the new law the license at Ana.
conda will be S3:o per year, PAYABLE quar-
terly.
the Granite Mountain Mining Com
pany is averaging about So 900 prodnc,
every week
Re,1e:v:: The average number OF cars
received at Anaconda during twenty. -four
hours is 1oS.
The foreman Of Nelson S,orey's ranch,
says the losses on Clarkc's Fork have been
exaggerated. and the entire loss will no,
exceed 10 per cent.
The festive game known as stud poker
has been relegated to the shades in Butte
gambling saloons, in conformity with the
provisions Of the new law.-[Inter Noun.
tain
Beginning on the first Of April will be
the regular annual season for weighing the
mails on the Northern Pacific. 1t will
last thirty.fivc days. The weighing divi.
sions will be from St. Paul to Mandan,
Mandan to Missoula. and Missouia 10
Portland.
Joseph d. Kirby, the late assistant clerk
of the Council, was found dead in his bed
last Thursday afternoon at :hc Cos,nopo..
itan hotel, Helena. lie was an old time bus.
mess man. There are left BY his death
widow with three small children at Silver
Star, where the interment took place.
\ prominent stockman residing a,
Miles City, sends word that the reports
OF losses among cattle on the Yellowstone
have been very much exaggerated. 1t has
been impossible to ride the range thor.
ough'y but SO far as can te ascertainet the
loss will not exceed twenty per cent
[River Press.
Mr. Ed. Lunden, Of the Brown Ranch,
ing Co.. was in town this week. lie saws
the cattle over in his district are holding on,
we'll. only four Of that Companv's being
found. Mr.. Howell Harris. Of the Circle
Brand outfit. gives different tale from
down the river, and stated that the Cattle
are fast succumbing to the win,er.-II.cth.
bridge News.
Kew. Mills is in receipt OF 4 letter very
recently from the Sage Greek Sheep com.
pany which gives good account Ct affairs
there They met with some loss in the
November squall and also on the las, of
January let flock get away in the blizzard
and lost so' but with that exception their
loss has been nominal. They have plenty
OF hay to feed until spring. There ,a,,i.
have also wintcred we'll and withou, loss
H'sse"lian: Major Roman was in N.
city this week enroute home to the locke
Agency alter having spent some time IN
the Bitter Root valley quietly laborin.
with the Indians. up there, trying to induce
them to remove to the reservation, and h.
thinks his effors in many cases will be- .,c
ce''essfu'. 1t would be good thing for
the people in the valley and for the lnd;,ns
As the latter can give no title to ,he;, ,,,d
wnen they want to sell. and much of,h.
most desirable land in that section i ,...
Is known As "Indian land"